This funfetti peanut butter cookie cake (with plenty of chocolate) is a delicious and simple way to celebrate any occasion, or just a regular old Thursday. With chocolate chips! And chocolate frosting! And extra sprinkles on top! Because we’re CELEBRATING today! April 1 is my little Cookie’s first birthday. (Technically she’s two-and-a-half-ish but we’re calling […]

Banana cupcakes with peanut butter frosting are a fun take on the classic peanut-butter-and-banana combo. You can’t go wrong with a dessert combining those flavors! These cupcakes are bananas! B-A-N-A. . .I’ll stop. I heard Hollaback Girl on the radio last week and just had to go there. But I’ll move on. As with many […]

With a lightly coconut-y cake and a generous dollop of caramel-y frosting, coconut cupcakes with caramel frosting are the perfect dessert for any occasion. Caramel frosting is snarled in my hair right now and I’m so OK with it. Because however sticky my hair is, really I’m just grateful that I was able to capture […]

Cardamom cranberry coffee cake is a sweet and spicy cake base filled with tart cranberries and topped with a perfect crumb topping. One of life’s great tragedies, I think, is that cranberries are a mostly seasonal ingredient. If it were up to me I’d eat cranberry bread and muffins and, yes, Starbucks cranberry bliss bars year-round. […]